Friday, February 08, 2008

#261 Kenilworth Championship - Round 4

NM Mark Kernighan held on to his half-step lead by smashing me in 18 moves. Ari Minkov kept pace with a forfeit win and Sherer-Carrelli was agreed drawn with White in a winning position.

U1800 Sections

The bye problems are worsening. With Pat Mazzillo having to withdraw, there are now 2 uneven groups. Perhaps the only solution is to combine them & change the format to a 12-player RR.

As for the games, Ian Mangion made up for his erased win (over Pat) by defeating Joe Renna, Mike Wojcio beat Bert Shiffman, Ted Mann won against Jim Cole & Joe Demetrick received a forfeit victory from Dmitriy Yampolskiy.

Here are the crosstables for the Open, U1800-A & U1800-B sections.You can play thru both open section games here or download them. The U1800s should follow in a few days.

5 comments:

Personally, I would love the opportunity to play a 12-player RR for the U-1800 setion, but perhaps we should combine the sections and play out a modified Swiss (maybe seven rounds), which would at least be fair to Ian Mangion since his game against Pat Mazillo wouldn't have to be "erased." (Of course, this scenario wouldn't happen in a Swiss tournament.)Of course, the decision is Geoff's, but does anyone else have any thoughts?